How to craft new balls for me ?

Assuming this is NOT a joke (which it must be, since scorpions eat only insects) one could slightly inflate balloons to the appropriate size, then cover in slip. Glaze and fire as normal. Attaching them is going to be the fun part. Might I recommend a good size staplegun? Wayne Seidl who doesn't EVEN want to conjure up the image

I would think you would want to take a wad of clay of the appropriate size, roll it in your hands until it has taken a nice round shape. Make as many of these as you think you might want (having extras around never hurts and some of us need more balls than others), let them dry out completely and then bisque fire. These will of course shrink in size with drying and firing but since you will want to put them in sacks you want them to be smaller than the final product. Deciding on the covering material will be up to you. You could have someone knit you some rather furry bags or you might consider vinyl or leather. I'm not sure which would hold up better or if you want to be able to remove them during showering or other activities.... It would certainly save you the cost of cups during those American sports where they require such things (I believe the Brits and others don't use protection in their football - or is that rugby?). Good luck and let us all know how it works out!!

DKat

Back in my days as a Bioengineering student, I heard a great lecture by a fellow named Silas Brayley (sp?) from Dow Chemical (or was it Dow Corning? Never could keep 'em straight!) His topic was Dow's biomedical silicone products, including breast implants and testicles. (He even passed around samples... very strange experience!) The testicles were to replace those lost due to cancer, etc, and they only came in a couple of sizes. He related the story of one old geezer who complained that his new one didn't match the size of his natural one. The doctor explained about the limited sizes and concluded by noting that the slight difference was "hardly the sort of thing that your friends are going to notice". Whereupon the geezer replied "Well MY friends do!".

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Rugby players AROUND THE WORLD (with the exception of the sissy French) DO NOT wear pads......even on their heavy days.....

Just standing up for my boys.

As for other sports.....mainly our gridiron players are the uber wimps with 50 lbs of padding per square inch

NOTE: No insult meant to the French but their ruggers are the exception to a very hardcore tradition in rugby.

Now back to pottery....

LMac